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Hi again, I think you guys are right. maybe now I understand. I just read some stuff on the net about negative questions, plus one of Jim's posts, and this "idea" I had seems the right one: Kooyeen wrote: Idea! Maybe that only works with modals and with requests, not permissions? So...

<"External to both subject and speaker". Clearly, that doesn't apply in this instance. "Internal drives" are external to the speaker, but not to the subject (the children).> Without going too far down the road to Psychologyville , what is your understanding of the word "drive" in that...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute: 1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

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